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"They said this is the place where you're born, so no matter where you end, this is where you began."
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"They said this is the place where you're born, so no matter where you end, this is where you began."
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"It's like pieces of a puzzle that we're just now putting together."
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What Carries Me Through
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What Carries Me Through
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"Being alone drug up all these memories from the past."
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"Being alone drug up all these memories from the past."
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A Chapter From My Life
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A Chapter From My Life
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“It opened up for me like a gift. And I’m like, ‘I’m in this lab killing cancer.’”
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“It opened up for me like a gift. And I’m like, ‘I’m in this lab killing cancer.’”
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The StoryCorps Podcast

Discover stories from our podcast’s new season about comfort, wisdom, and hope.

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Grateful To Be Your Dad
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Grateful To Be Your Dad
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To Live With Your Hands Unfolded
14:51

To Live With Your Hands Unfolded
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Little Kids, Big Questions
15:46

Little Kids, Big Questions
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From One Essential Worker To Another
13:18

From One Essential Worker To Another

Get to Know StoryCorps

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An Introduction to StoryCorps from our Founder
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Stories to Lift Your Spirit

Honoring Black Voices

Discover these stories from StoryCorps Griot, our national initiative to ensure that the voices, experiences, and life stories of African American people are preserved and presented with dignity.

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Me & You

Me & You

Jackie Miller and her son, Scott, share a conversation that leads to unexpected revelations and shows the profound love between a mother and her child.
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“And you said, ‘I want you to do that house, please.’”
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“And you said, ‘I want you to do that house, please.’”

Sharon and Larry Adams remember how their love story turned into a love affair with their whole community.
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Leading the Way
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Leading the Way

John Washington, 95, was born blind and with a severe loss of hearing. He sat down with his eldest child, Melva Washington Toomer, for a conversation about the pride he takes in his kids and to laugh over some of their childhood hijinks.
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"Anytime they had a stunt to do with a black actor, they would paint these white guys in blackface."
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"Anytime they had a stunt to do with a black actor, they would paint these white guys in blackface."

Willie Harris and Alex Brown remember the prejudice they faced as African American stuntmen while breaking into the film industry in the 1960s.